A few days had passed and the festival had gone on for the entire time. It was currently the fifth and final day and the day of Asta and Ayumi’s exhibition match to kick off the final day. After that a tournament to name a champion. The prize: to have the honor to try out for a spot amongst the trainees of the Black Bulls ranks. Asta’s and Ayumi’s friends and family were sitting in the royal observation box. Many of them were utterly surprised that Asta’s older brother had not only remade the city and its buildings but added so many new things into it as well.

Ayumi and Asta were currently with everypony in the booth trying the best way they could go all out without draining either of their powers or focus.

“I got nothing,” Asta shrugged with a sigh.

"Been working on it," Ayumi said. "It's almost done, I just need to finish syncing up the Ley lines with the regeneration enchantments and we can begin. The new training ground was partially a gift from your brother while I modified it using my talent and ability to merge with the planet in my energy form. This allows me to sync up Ley lines to keep the energy of the planet flowing through the enchantments while not overly draining it. Once my Consciousness finishes syncing up the regeneration enchantments we can fight without the worry of death. As we'll have Beyond alicorn health regen, energy regen, stamina regen, basically anyone inside will be immortal. This works through drawing on the planet's energy in a stable and efficient manner. The one thing I can't create a regeneration effect for is Anti-magic as everything about this regeneration effect is magic-based due to the nature of the planet. Luckily Anti-magic won't break the enchantments just disable them temporarily allowing us to deal lasting damage so if you want to finish the fight use your Anti-magic Zone."

“Or you could not completely fuck this zones spiritual array,” Came a voice from a familiar blonde-haired alchemist.

“Ed,” Asta and Ayumi said at once.

“Yo,” Ed waved.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Asta yelled. “Didn’t you say you have a coronation to get to?!”

“I did,” Ed nodded, “And technically I am.”

“Then how are you still here?!” Ayumi ground her teeth. 'Damn it I forgot that while the planet is fine with it my methods do make it far harder for soul reapers to operate.'

“I left a fission body behind to watch Asta’s coronation and to make sure you two don’t do any major damage while ya go all out,” Ed said nonchalantly.

“You think you can contain us?!” Asta raised an eyebrow. “You’re only a piece of the original! Ya don’t have the power to do that!”

“Watch what you say, Asta,” Ed said coldly. “I may be a piece of Ed but I am still Ed and not some run-of-the-mill shadow clone. I still have access to all my power and though they may be greatly lessened, I’m still more than strong enough to take you both on at the same time and still come out on top.”

They both gulped hard.

“I’m here cause I want to keep the place I literally just made for you in one piece,” He pointed at Asta. “You two battle heads are more than enough to tear it apart and I’m probably the only one skilled enough to run multiple alternate skills and spells in one body,” He turned to Ayumi who was about to speak up. “That being said. I will also be doing commentary and I’ll need a co-host. You game Ay?”

"It will be an honor my lord" Ayumi's voice came from the other room as a copy of Ayumi walked in. "I undid the incomplete enchantments only leaving my upgraded barrier which was just a material switch from the crystal to an orichalcum alloy native to my home World which is 10 times more efficient and lasts 10 times as long. Something I had on hand due to my Subspace storage pocket. It should now be an equal strength to Shining Armor's barrier without the need for him to cast the spell. I'll also give a couple of ingots of the alloy to you guys for research later."

“I have one even better,” Ed remarked.

"Ok?" The Ayumi in the hallway asked. "Isn't anyone weirded out by how there are two of me?"

“Not really,” Asta shrugged as he walked out of the booth while everyone else just shook their heads no.

“We saw this guy,” Rainbow pointed to Ed. “Copy himself six times and remake a town into a city. So seeing another you isn’t new. Especially since we know your a goddess and a displaced."

"Point." The Ayumi on the balcony said. "But what was your idea, Ed?"

“I’ll throw up a Fairy Sphere,” Ed smirked. “Nothing short of Acnologia can break it apart as a remote cast so if I cast it you know its sound."

"Yeah, not going to work unless you can overcharge it with something other than Magic that is past the dragon of no element. Like Tirek I can absorb Magic." Both Ayumi's said at once "I have absorbed a Fairy Sphere before."

Ed just deadpanned stared. “Really? Did just really just tell me it won’t work?”

"I'm not doubting you can make it work, but the element of Magic literally turns me into a being of pure energy that can absorb any and all magic with an unconscious effort," Ayumi said as the second Ayumi turned into smoke and was absorbed into the Ayumi on the balcony. "It's not a conscious choice it's something I do in that form without thinking. The barrier I made earlier won't be absorbed by me because it's made with my magic. Absorbing it would just cause a feedback loop that could destabilize me in that form."

Ed walked over and pointed to the arena, “Get your asses down there now…” he said darkly

“Done,” Asta quickly said and zipped out leaving Ayumi as Ed turned to look at the goddess.

“Well?” Ed glared.

"I'm not the main body. She's been down there this whole time." Ayumi said, "If you want to, you can see for yourself."

“Very well,” Ed snapped and an announcer’s table complete with microphones appeared. “Let’s do this,” he gave a smile with a thumbs up and sparkle from his teeth and the duo took their seats.

“Gooooooood Mooooooorrrrrrrning Black Clover Kingdom. I’ll be your announcer on this glorious last day of the Black Clover Founding Festival! The name's Ed Elrica and we come to you to wrap up this event with an exhibition match between the Visiting Princess Ayumi and King Asta. Now I turn things over to my Extremely appealing co-host!”

"Hello everyone I'm Ayumi." She said "I'll be providing commentary from the unique viewpoint of being one of the combatants. This is because I'm a clone of said combatant!" She said this with a grin as she cast a projection spell. "As I am an exact duplicate of myself I'll be adding comments on my thought processes along with the play by play. On-screen is the basic info on both combatants. This is by no means an in-depth readout of everything that either of them can do so any sneaky beings out there can't get a good idea of how to defeat them from this."

"We have Asta entering from the east," Ed said as Asta came out of the large archway in the eastern area of the arena.

"And Ayumi coming in from the west," Ayumi commented as her true body entered on the opposite side of Asta. "Alright, the combatants are set!"

"It's time for a battle this world has never seen before!!!!" Ed said as he threw out a hand and a large crimson spell matrix appeared on the arena's floor. "Grand Fairy Sphere!" Suddenly hexagonal energy plates came from the ground and formed into a dome. and solidified.

"Now, let's get ready to rrrrrrrruuuuuuuummmmmmmbbbbbbbbllllleeeele!!" Ed and Ayumi said in unison as they mentioned to the field.

Ayumi burst forward the sound of a sonic boom coming from her movement. "While you're my friend I'm not holding back!" She shouted as she attempted to punch Asta in the gut. "Neither will your enemies so don't think for a moment I'm going to stand on any pretext in this fight!"

"I start off strong showing that even though Asta is my friend that holding back is for people who lose," Ayumi says in response to the booing. "I did this to show that I will be just as strong and ruthless as any enemy Asta will face and that I have no qualms about fighting like a villain."

'Come on take the opening!' Ayumi thinks. 'We need to show off just as much as a fight.'

Asta stood there with his eyes closed and as Ayumi charged in, he moved out of the way allowing her to crash into the barrier. "I never said I wasn't taking you seriously my friend. From the moment we stepped onto the battlefield I've sensed nothing but bloodlust coming from you," He pointed. "It fills me with nothing but the excitement to fight you with everything I've got."

He smirked as anti-magic flowed from his grimoire and wrapped around Asta's arms, hardening into his close combat Gauntlets. Asta dropped down to all fours and took In a deep breath and controlled his blood flow throughout his body. Electricity started to spark from Asta's body.

"Asta demonstrates that even when facing off against a strong opponent that He keeps a level head in battle," Ed grinned. "It looks like he's starting off with his beast fight style combined with his thunder style to complement its swift but yet forward strong movements!"

Asta clawed his fingers into the ground, "Thunder Beast Breathing," he said as he shot forward launching rocks up so fast they were superheated. He bounded around through the air in zig-zags leaving afterimages behind as he gathered speed until he shot down to Ayumi. "Five Point Roaring Beast Thunder Star!"

Five Astas collide with Ayumi sending her upward in a flash of yellow static thunder but Asta wasn't done as he quickly ricocheted through the air to get above her.

"Thunder Beast Roar of the Heavenly King Lightning Strike!" He threw both clawed palms into Ayumi's gut as a massive lightning Tiger roared, sinking its fangs into her, causing the goddess to cough up blood as she rocketed towards the ground. Her impact formed a decent spider web cracked crater. Asta landed a ways away, his sight never leaving Ayumi as the lightning stopped.

"And Asta delivers a nice starting combo demonstrating his ability to use his martial arts skills in tandem," Ed pulled his fist down.

"Get up Goddess," Asta glared. "I know you've taken more than that love tap and walked it off."

Ayumi laid there and smirked as her bangs hid her eyes. "Ok Awaken NIGHTMARE NOVA!" While saying this she burst into silver flames and her body transformed into her dragon hybrid form. "Come on!"

"Well this is interesting I changed into my second strongest form. This means that I'm ready to kill." Ayumi comments. "This battle is heating up rapidly!"

"Fine then," Asta held up his left arm to reveal his black dragon rider’s mark. "I'll match you dragon for a dragon!" His entire body darkened and looked like it was covered in a coating of dark grey translucent scales. Asta’s arm released black flames onto his body as he channeled antimagic from his right gauntlet into his body. The right side of his body took on his black mode while the flame covered him and formed a second full draconic wing and tail. Asta glared at Ayumi with a smirk as he took in a new breath. "Flame breathing, Black Flame Dragon Mode."

"Oh my, it appears you were right on the money with that last comment!" Ed leaned over. "Asta appears to have combined several of his techniques into a new form. Let’s watch what happens!"

Asta held up a finger and beckoned Ayumi to come on. "Let’s go a couple of rounds hot stuff!" His girls in the stands all blushed.

Ayumi pulled her gunblades out of her storage pocket and the flames of her form wrapped around them before she shot at Asta with powerful kinetic blasts of that silver fire.

"Now that I've summoned my weapons I'll be fighting hard!" The Ayumi next to Ed commented. "The only thing this fight is missing is-"

"Kaio-Ken Times 50!" Ayumi shouted as a massive red aura surrounded her silver fire. "Ki beats Qui!" She shouted.

"Now I'm truly risking it all using the Kaio-Ken to emulate the super Saiyan transformation! Can my armor heal me fast enough?! Or will my body give out before I win?" The commentator Ayumi stated. "Unknown but I'll love the outcome either way!"

"I wouldn't bank on anything just yet my dear," Ed pointed at Asta. "The thing about Asta's defensive power is that his Qi sensing allows him to read the flow of his opponent's energy meaning that every last ki blast you send will never hit him!"

Asta easily read the ki and dodged every one of Ayumi's blasts. His Grimoire floated up next to him and opened to a page. Suddenly a long handle with a three-pointed white star pommel came from the book. Pulling the handle out the rest of the way revealed a red-edged sword with a slight gap in it with a white core. Its overall width and length were equal to the Demon Slayer if not just a bit bigger.

Asta easily brandished his new weapon as he and Ayumi clashed a fury of sparks and after images. Black flame trails and scorch marks littered the field as the king and goddess fought with one another.

"I know that sword from somewhere," Ayumi commented. "But where?"

"I'm not surprised you don't recognize that blade," Ed smirked. "The state it's in isn't its true form after all."

"Well, you won't be able to release it!" Ayumi said while she rushed the Black King her Aura disappeared as she began teleporting around him to confuse his senses. 'His Ki sense needs to be blocked before I use my 100%'

"It seems I'm trying to confuse Asta using teleportation." The commentator Ayumi said, "Hopefully I can make a move soon!"

“It won’t work,” Ed explained. “Asta not only reads a creature’s Qi but also the flow of the Qi in his environment. It’s what makes it nearly impossible to sneak up on him.”

“What kind of a fight is this?” Gilda said as she watched the fighters go at one another. “Just their movements alone tears apart the battlefield. It’s more like watching two legendary titans form those old myths settling an agreement.”

“You’re not too far off with your description,” Celestia answered. “These two are for stronger than any creatures my sister and I have faced. I see now that had we remained at an impasse with him Asta would’ve easily taken us down even before he gained the powers he holds now.”

“Yes, and to think young our own Twilight Sparkle will one day gain the powers the Ayumi holds now,” Luna looked at the younger alicorn whose sight still had yet to break from the field. “And just think further they are still not fighting at their maximum power.”

“What?!” Gilda said in disbelief. ‘I have to tell the Arbitrator as soon as this fight is over with,’ She screamed mentally

“Asta still has his second Demon form and his Avatar state to unleash,” Ed added. “Even then he still has his sacred treasure sealing his power. After he releases it the only way he could still get more power was if he activated his ancient magic to feed his antimagic but that is too much of a risk without a good reason seeing as this is only a mock battle with a winner by knock-out .”

'Heh, I hope my plan works!' Ayumi thought as multiple copies of herself appeared in each spot she teleported from. The Ayumi at the table noticed this and began talking. "While teleporting I did a Goku and planted Ki in the ground but instead of just landmines I made hard light duplicates of myself to try to throw Asta off! This also seems to have the added effect of infusing my mana into the surrounding area."

"Planting landmines does jack shit girl," Asta smirked as he slammed a hand on the ground and twisted it to rebuild the ground and detonating all the mines. Before the ground exploded he used airbending to shoot himself into the air. "Fly," he said and a blue aura covered his body and he floated in the air as Ayumi was caught by her own traps. "That'll keep her busy for a moment," he said to himself as he looked at his sword. "I know you can hear. Why won't you activate?" He held it up to his face and looked at his reflection of the red metal.

"He can sense the sword is holding back but not why," Ed shook his head.

"Whaddya mean?" Applejack asked.

"That sword only awakens when it senses its owner's heart is there," Ed pointed At her.

"I still don't understand," Fluttershy looked concerned.

"Could it be because his heart isn't truly in this fight? Twilight asked.

"Bingo my dear little sister," Ayumi added. "He is currently fighting at just below what he is actually capable of. He's using about 60% of his power that he has access to now. If he invokes the avatar state and demon form then he'll be at one hundred percent or at least the hundred he has access to normally while his sacred treasure is sealing most of his power."

"I recognize that weapon now. you say that you're in this fight all the way but honestly, your heart is not truly into it and that's what's holding that blade back." Ayumi said as the smoke dissipated. "If you enjoy the battle and not just fight it, that's what will unlock that weapon's full potential." 'enough playing around time to go 100%' She thought as the red Aura dropped away and she brought her gunblades together. "I'll show you what that means with my own weapon BANKAI!"

"It seems I'm through holding back myself as I unleash my Bankai the second release state for a Zanpakuto and the final form as most know it." The Ayumi at the table said. "This is a sure sign that this battle is coming to a quick close."

Asta gritted his teeth, "I was trying to hold off on using more power till I needed it but," he glanced down at his newest weapon. "It looks like I wasn't being honest with myself." he closed his eyes and then opened them to find himself in his Grimoire. "Raava I need access to the Avatar state in full and Liebe I need access to demon form two."

The light spirit appeared, "You know with our connection at max I can not stop the demon's influence correct?" He nods once. "Very well then if that is your wish." She bowed and then went inside of Asta's chest.

Asta then turned to a pitch-black figure sitting across from him cross-legged. The demon snickered at Asta. "You must think I'm going to try and influence you somehow, not this time," Leibe leaned over and was serious. "Demon form two won't have much effect over your mental state anymore. Due to the zanpakuto and sacred treasure, my influence has been split and capped more but that doesn't mean I Can't still have some sway. For now, I just want to test our power against that goddess bitch so I will help undeterred… This time…" he turned into wispy black smoke and clung to Asta's body.

Asta opened his now glow eyes, one red and one green, "Alright Ayumi I'm coming for you too," he said in a multi-toned voice. He held his sword up with both hands and it pulsed three times then transformed.

The white centerpiece popped up and turned in The Nobodies' symbol on the side revealing a pink ethereal core. one side popped up to extend in a golden blade nearly double the length with a red spear-shaped tip. The back half of the blade stayed red but the top and bottom were more pronounced and the red darted to a near black toward the hilt of the weapon.

"Come goddess and taste the sting of Heart's Desire against your flesh!" Asta said in his multi-toned voice as he rockets toward Ayumi. In a clash of thunder that split the air the two met shaking the entire area.

"Ooo. I know all of you out there in the audience felt that one cause I sure did," Ed commented. "Looks like Asta is finally in it all the way as is Ayumi. All that's left is for them to both release that last seal restraining the verbal floodgates on their power."

"This reminds me of when I fought Tirek," Ayumi said with a nostalgic look to her eye as she watched herself fight. "After absorbing every Alicorn on my Equestria's Magic I'd been pushed to the Limit by trying to control such immense godly power all at once while fighting that Beast. But when I saw that he held all of my family and friends and was trying to use them as bargaining chips, something snapped in me. That is when I first unlocked my Nightmare Nova form."

"I hope you don't mind but I'm going to be using one of your attacks against you," Ayumi said as she began spinning around rapidly her anti-magic flowing from her blade forming a large tornado. "Black Hurricane!" She shouted as she flew towards Asta.

Asta glared as anti-magic wafted from his right hand. Letting go of his sword for a split second as Ayumi’s attack came for him, “Black Flash!” He shot forward and did a swift uppercut and the Black Hurricane disappeared instantly with Ayumi staring at Asta thoroughly put off in shock not knowing the technique the king had used to destroy her own attack. “Let me demonstrate the proper attack,” Asta held his sword up as black anti-magic covered the blade. “BLACK HURRICANE!” He slashed sending out an entire onslaught of multiple Black Hurricanes.

Ayumi did her best to dodge them. She noted that all of Asta’s hurricanes were spinning much faster than her own was and any of the debris caught in them was immediately sliced to fine shards in the storm. Not paying attention to one of them behind her that had bounced back off the barrier she got her arm caught.

“RAAAAAAAAA!” Ayumi yelled as she used her right hand to destroy the Hurricane around her left arm to reveal a thoroughly shredded limb dripping with blood. “Damn! Even with my healing, this will take some time to get back into proper working order, and even then it won’t be until after the fight that is one hundred percent better. Asta’s power in this state is quite impressive,” Ayumi smirked. ‘It’s not just his strength though. It’s his disciplines that allow him a much wider array of attacks.’ She thought. “Take this!" she blasts a massive ki blast at the king.

Asta’s Grimoire flipped through its pages and outshot the demon slayer, demon dweller, and demon destroyer swords completely covered in anti-magic. “Black Shield,” He said as he held out his right hand and the weapons came together and spun, dispersing the ki blast.

Ed smiled, “I must say, with the demon off his leash and with Raava not being hindered by restraining it, Asta is showing quite a bit more power and control than not even I thought he had. But then again they are all cooperating undeterred at the moment,” he stroked his chin. “Still the move he used to cancel your Black Hurricane. It’s not one I’ve ever heard or seen before.”

“It’s a new one I believe,” Ayumi said, “but with that wound, I just gained my RAGE and reached its peak.”

“ENOUGH!” Ayumi shouted as she backed to the wall of the Dome drawing her wounded hand over her face and a bone mask appeared over her muzzle before she flung her blade at Asta as her healthy hand was placed in front of her a Ki orb forming in front of it shifting between gold and blue. “FINAL BIG BANG KAMEHAMEHA!”

“I will answer your most powerful attack with my own,” Asta said as his Heart’s Desire retracted into it’s sealed stat end his demon blade flew in front of him and all combined into one sword, something that not even Ed had seen before.

Asta then took hold of his combined sword with his right hand, “Sacred treasure Release!” he called out as the floodgates on his power were opened to full. He held his weapon above his head the black anti-magic on expanding to reach upward to great heights to form a massive black blade with reddish-black lightning sparking off the weapon.

“BLACK DIVIDER!!!!!” Asta roared in his avatar state demon voice as his attack collided with Ayumi’s. Both of the fighters put everything they had into their attacks and neither showed any signs of backing down from it.

“Really powering it on,” Ed smirked. “Look at how strong you’ve become little brother. I can’t wait for the day you ask me for a match,” He sighed. “Better reinforce the barrier,” he stood up. “Void link five percent,” Ed held out his right arm and it turned into a solid all-consuming black color. The barrier then gained extra layers to keep it from breaking but it still cracked in several areas from the strain the fighters were putting out on it. “To say that their power is nothing to sneeze at is an understatement. Not many can crack my Void barrier. I may just be a fragment of Ed but it still takes a considerable amount of output to even put a minor crack in the void barrier. Color me impressed. But this won't last much longer.”

“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” The duo roared until a cracking was heard. Asta’s sword had started to fracture until it shattered and Ayumi’s blast consumed everything in its path.

Every creature waited for the smoke to clear and then they saw Asta still stand there. “He still wants to go after all that!” Ayumi huffed. “I’m tapped out.”

“You can relax,” Ed said as he lowered the barrier. “Asta’s resolve is so great that he didn’t fall in battle. He is unconscious but on his feet. He didn’t want to let his people down,” Ed vanished and then appeared next to Asta and through his brother’s arm over his shoulder. Asta’s face showed determination as his eyes were still open and his mouth was smirking as blood was dripping down his face and from his mouth.

“Let’s get you two to medical.” He looked to Ayumi, “Come on, you need medical badly too.”

"Yeah but I think I'll pass out now." Both Ayumi’s passed out the one at the table being absorbed into the wounded one. The energy healing her slightly as her hollow mask shattered.

“Can we help?” Ed looked over to see Asta’s girls and the princesses as well as Shining Armor alongside Spike. Ayumi’s Chibi and girls went and grabbed the snoring goddess, “Hm, ‘Looks like Gilda ran off,’ Fluttershy.”

“Yes?”

“Do you think you can heal them?” Ed asked. “I can do some stuff but I’m afraid my time here is growing rather short rather quickly. Invoking my Void link ate up what power this fission has. I have maybe twenty minutes if I’m careful with the last of my power.”

“If you can get us to the castle we can take care of the rest,” Applejack said. “He may be your brother but he’s our man. You’ve done more than enough for us and these creatures as is. We can handle it from here on out.”

“Alright,” Ed chuckled as they blinked into the hospital wing of the castle and he set Asta down on a nearby bed as Ayumi's girls did the same with her. “Looks like I can leave my idiot brother in your more than capable hands, my dear little sisters,” He said with a warm smile as the others blushed. “I hope to be there for the little one's birth,” he rubbed Shy head. “I know Asta will make a wonderful father. It's funny really he always hoped his first kid would be a little girl. You do well with her, both of you.”

“Thank you, big brother,” Shy blushed.

Cracked formed all over Edward’s body all of a sudden. “Looks like my time is up. Take care everyone and good luck in the future,” he said as he shattered into dust.

“Let’s see here,” Fluttershy said, walking in between Asta and Ayumi’s beds as her Grimoire floated up and flipped through its pages to a specific spell. “Gaea Magic, Mother’s Cradle,” She said as she held out her hands to the duo, and green and yellow magic flowed to create large cribs of plants and earth that resemble large sets of hands. “Now All we do is let them sleep,'' she giggled.

Three hours later…

"Gods my head hurts!" Ayumi said as she sat up. "Used too much Ki in the fight."

“ZZZzzzzz…..” Ayumi looked over and saw Asta laying in a cradle of sorts not far from her. He was snoring with a snot bubble steadily rising and falling. He looked completely healed.

“You’re awake,” She looked over and saw Spike. “Need some headache meds?”

"Not really it's pretty much a magic backlash but with another form of energy give me a few hours and I should be good." Ayumi said, "I'm just thankful that my nervous system didn't shut down as teen Gohan's in Dragon Ball Z abridged." Ayumi stretched as she stood up her hospital gown just barely covering her. "That would be like having sleep paralysis to the point where your eyes are closed you can't do anything except talk as you can't see, hear, taste, smell, or feel anything while conscious. That's terrifying even for an alicorn."

“Asta has paralyzed me before and it took me a few hours to fully recover so I have some perspective of,” Spike nodded. “Your herd changed you out of your clothes. Rarity made you a new set for when you woke up. As much as I have the feeling that you wouldn’t mind walking around in nothing but that gown. You can’t as you know already.” He turned and started to leave. “It was a good fight by the way. I really think if Asta hadn’t been hindered by himself from the start he would’ve beat you. Thanks for giving him an opponent that gave him something to strive for.” He Left.

"Heh to be honest if I was fighting at 100% from the beginning instead of the 90% I was at throughout the fight thanks to Asta's Anti-Magic keeping me from using my full power I might have beaten him too instead of the tie I see it as." Ayumi turned to the still sleeping Asta "One day we'll settle this big guy."

“Asta is certainly much more powerful than he thinks,” Chibi popped up and leaned on Ayumi’s shoulder. “Not even the original Ed would’ve thought this. To think as his max he was able to push your power down inadvertently is amazing. Perhaps if you two teamed up you would’ve more than a match for fissionEd.”

"Well, I wouldn't say that." Ayumi said, "at least not without something like Ultra instinct to help avoid his attacks." The godly Alicorn conjured up an orb of God ki "That's something I'm extremely far away from even now." She got dressed while moving the orb of power around her body. "My Nightmare Nova form bypasses the need to use God ki to activate a god mode since the power is stored in an amulet I implanted into my body. This is about as much God Ki as I can access currently." The ball of energy was absorbed back into herself. "Thanks to my HUD I know I have stupid reserves of God Ki just no way to access it, that means I have plenty of room to grow."

"Ed has become even more powerful after leaving," Chibi noted. "He fought with a goku displaced who summoned him on the way home and gained god ki. The fission didn't have that power. My progenitor truly is a monster. Not only does he have a wealth of powers and magic he can use void energy and has years of experience to back it up."

"True but I'll not try fighting him anytime soon," Ayumi said as she stepped out of the room finding everyone waiting. "Hey."

"How are you feeling?" Fluttershy asked. "You had quite a bit of damage done to your body but I did what I could. If Asta was up he might've been able to heal you better but," there was a quick flash of the snoozing king, "given the state you were both in I highly doubt it."

"I have to ask why did you take off my armor?" Ayumi said irritated. "It couldn't have been my girls because they know that wearing that armor heals me faster than normal Alicorn regeneration. Even when the armor itself has damaged the healing effect works still."

"It was almost completely destroyed dear," Rarity said. "Only a few bit covering up your unmentionables. You herd stripped you down. You'll have to ask them about the details. I honestly think it's because they wanted to look you over and second because they thought it would make you feel more comfortable inside Fluttershy's spell."

"Heh, I can't believe that Asta stripped me!" Ayumi said with a chuckle. "So anyone hungry Alicorn regeneration works like a speedster's needing a literal shit ton of calories so I'm starving."

“Ed actually left you quite a few full-course meals,” Chibi noted from Ayumi’s shoulder. “I don’t recommend moving around too much more until you had at least three. You’re barely moving around at all.”

"Eh, I can at least head to the dining room," Ayumi said as she began stumbling her way there. "It's better for all involved parties if I make a mess in a room made for eating in than in the hallway."

"I'll just blink us there," Chibi said as he teleported himself and Ayumi to the dining room. "Better for all parties if you do not needlessly stumble through the palace."

"Point," Ayumi said. "I see that Sonata and Dancer have their favorite foods."

Suddenly an unholy gurgling growl rang through the entire place. " I'm so fucking hungry!" Came Asta's voice followed by a low rumbling that gradually grew louder as the Black King dashed through the halls of his place to the Dining Area slamming open the door. Everyone stared as another unearthly noise came from his stomach. Asta looked at everyone, "Sorry, I guess that battled to go want more out of me than I realized," He rubbed his head. Pulling up a chair he voraciously stuffed his face with food after piece of food.

Ayumi soon matched Asta in eating as Chrysalis walked into the dining room. "What are two Saiyans doing here?!" She said after a glance at the two black holes at the table "Did Asta summon a pair of them for senzu beans and offer them food in exchange?!"

"Mah bady vuses a bit of emvergy im vull bower mode," Asta said with a mouth full of food and then swallowing. "Sorry about the obscene table manners but you used as much energy as we did’d you be packing it away to hit stuff!" He pointed a turkey leg at the changeling queen before taking a bite out of it.

"She was joking, Asta," Sonata said as she ate her tacos. "We've all had that kind of hunger. Hell, I still have my magical hunger from my gem. Luckily Ayumi purified it so that the negative emotion I eat no longer alters my mind. She did this for all of my race as a wedding present."

"She did a similar thing for my grandfather freeing him from the mental influence of the evil he absorbed from his Celestia and Luna," Moondancer said. "He's married to her aunt now."

“Asta watch your manners,” Fluttershy scolded her boyfriend.

“You could’ve at least put a shirt on before running all the way down here,” Twilight said with a bit of pink in her cheeks.

“There is such a thing as modesty dear,” Rarity crossed her arms. “I know you’re famished but the way your acting and dressing is very unbecoming of a king.”

“Ah don’t mind the shirtlessness,” Applejack held up a hand and everyone in Asta’s group but Fluttershy and Twilight did look right at her. “What am Ah not allowed to like mah boyfriend’s body?”

“Time and place Aj time and place,” Rainbow shook her head.

“Don’t give me any of that back sas Miss Hours in the Shower with Spike,” Aj shot back pointing at the Pegasus who was now red-faced.

"Oh?" Ayumi said with a dark look on her face. "You better be treating my son right Dashel otherwise I'll thundershock surprise you."

"You're not my mom in any sense of the word," Spike deadpanned with a hint of pink in his face. "So don't threaten my marefriend. I don't care if she is your student."

"Vet vs fids be Vyumi," Asst said, working down a steak. "He's gonna have a hard enough time now that Celestia knows." Everyone looked at the tall mare whose eye was twitching.

"It's not a threat thundershock surprise is a Ki attack that uses electrical energy to paralyze and levitate your opponent," Ayumi said to Spike. "As a Pegasus Dash will be resistant to it. And must I remind you I'm your mother on my Equus so my mother's instincts tend to expand to each Spike I meet."

“Stay out of this,” Spike pointed a finger at Ayumi. “I don’t care about you omniverse terms second cousins ten times removed bullshit. My family is here not out there. You’re not related to me in any way shape or form so stay out of it and don’t threaten the mare I love again or I Will retaliate. I don’t care if you are a goddess you’re not gonna talk to her like that.”

"I'm sorry," Ayumi said with a brow-beaten look. "I truly meant no hostilities."

"While I'm proud of you for sticking up for the mare you love Spike," Cadence cut in. "You were a bit harsh."

"I don't care," Spike shook his head. "I can take the heat but you don't threaten the girl I love while I'm standing in the room like that."

"I do appreciate you standing up for me little guy," Rainbow wrapped her arms around the youth. "But I can take care of myself."

"Like I said, you're my girl I'm not gonna let someone come in and just threaten you like that," He crossed his arms.

"Like I said, leave them be," Asta rolled his eyes. "Celestia will take care of her boy."

Just as Asta said this a golden aura covered Dash and Spike, "You two are coming with me," She with an irritated twitch smile. "We have so many things to discuss." Celestia pulled them out of the room immediately.

"No burning Dash Tia!" Ayumi shouted. "Spike can take it but Dash has no extreme heat resistance!"

"Welp they're going to be indisposed for 6 hours," Sonata said. "Tia nearly killed me when I started dating Yumi here."

"It depends on who made the first move," Luna cut in. "Tia won't go as far as to hurt them. If she tries Spike will step in. My nephew is more dangerous than my sister due to his training under a certain king," all eyes were on Asta who was stuffing his face again.

Suddenly a giant rolled-up newspaper smacked Asta and Ayumi over the head, "I told you to watch your MANNERS!" Now everyone stared at Fluttershy. When she realized all eyes were on eye her face went bright red. "Oh dear, I lashed out too much again didn't I?"

"More like we thought you'd react sooner," Chrysalis cackled. "Seriously, Ayumi I get your protective instincts got a boost since you joined the hive mind but you need to tone it down."

"Ow…" Asta sat up rubbing the back of his head. "Geez Shy you didn't have to use the giant newspaper?"

"What was that?"Shy glared, tapping the newspaper against her palm.

"I mean, yes and I love you," He smiled nervously.

"Good boy," She patted his head.

"Sorry Flutters," Ayumi said as she slowed down in her eating. "While literally starving isn't an excuse, I did need the food." She then turned to Asta "So when are we doing the Grimoire publishing thing?"

"FOOD in mouth first, spell later," Asta said as he slowed down his eating under his head mare's glare. "Sorry, Ay but I'm very hungry and from the way, we were both feeling I think we should eat first."

"I already have everything set up for the publishing spell in the library so no rush," Twilight said sheepishly.

"Any of You other hot ladies want a grimoire too?" He quickly turned to Ayumi's girls.

"Sure I think it'll be helpful for all of us." Chrysalis said Moondancer and Sonata nodded in agreement. "Plus it will be interesting if we'll get Black clover magic, Fairy Tail magic, or RAGE magic-based spells."

Asta gave a swallow, "No you won't be getting any of the latter two. I don't have Fairy Tail access so that's off the table completely and Rage magic doesn't really exist." He took a swig of his drink, "What you know as rage magic in Black Clover is actually a side effect of a reincarnation curse cast by Zagred. It will mainly be based on what you're nature and your family are good at naturally, magic and otherwise."

"They were referring to my unique magic." Ayumi said, "The power source of the magic of Ayumi from X-Blades and Blades of Time is RAGE and it's how I'm able to use my base god modes. It's kind of like how changelings use emotions to power their bodies and magic."

“That still won’t have too much to do with you getting a grimoire,” Asta said flatly while picking up his cup. “You’ll more than likely get something along the lines of Twilight’s. She had me take a look at it lately and it turned into a six-leaf grimoire.”

"Six-leaf?" Ayumi asked "Must have something to do with those two. But let's finish eating before we do this."

“I think it has something to do with your light and dark forms,” Asta drank from his cup. “Technically, they’re both you but not you. Think of them as separate entities that share your body similar to mine. I have Raava and Leibe. Your two are a bit different in the fact that your forms are literal gods having had their separate bodies at one point and time but now share it with you. I’m a bit different in the fact that Leibe still has a physical form but it’s sealed inside the Grimoire whereas Raava is a spirit and doesn’t need a physical form to manifest herself and that I’m her physical form.”

"I'm actually a conduit for their power they both have physical bodies but due to having filled their artifacts with most of their power that's where it comes from." Ayumi said, "Them being gods is probably what changed her Grimoire."

“That’s what I thought too,” Twilight looked at her Grimoire and placed her fingers on the six-leaf clover. “But another thought came to me too. If I have six leaves,” she hesitates for a moment. “Doesn’t that mean I also have a demon like Luna, Spike, and Asta now too?”

Everyone looked at Asta who quietly set down his fork, “That is a definite now Twi but we'll be there to help you understand this better. Having a demon isn’t all bad. You are one of a very few holders of a Grimoire that can dual-wield two types of magic!” He smiled. “We won’t let go down the possession path Twi.”

“Thanks Asta!” Twilight looked at her boyfriend with a loving smile.

"Her name is Midnight most likely," Ayumi said. "She'll be all of your insecurities and mental health problems personified. Over time you'll become more stable thanks to her existing as a separate entity."

"Yumi was lucky." Sonata said, "Truth took her mental problems as payment when she first met it."

“Sorry but if Ed doesn’t want anything to do with Truth then neither do I,” Asta put a stop to that idea. “I don’t care if it is another Truth. I still want nothing to do with it and I don’t want anyone else doing anything with it either. I’m not getting wrapped up in void dwellers if I can help it. Ed is close enough to being one as is and he would be one if not for his deal with his Truth. Last I saw the real him he was really pissed at something too, luckily he patched me up before I came back here but enough of that.” He finished his meal. “We need to get the Library set up for the ritual, hopefully, Celestia is done chewing out Spike and Rainbow. Meet us there when you’re finished okay,” Everyone nods and Asta and Twilight depart.

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30 minutes later

Ayumi and her herd made their way to the library. The group observed Asta setting up four blank notebooks and empty bowls. "So how does this work exactly?" Ayumi asked. "It looks simple."

“It’s stupid simple really,” Twilight huffed.

She’s right” Asta chuckled. “First put enough ink in the bowls to write your name. Then use the needles to prick your fingers and add a drop of your blood to the ink. Third, you use the quill and blooded ink to write your names on the cover pages then the rest is done by me.”

"Blood magic eh?" Ayumi commented as each of her group followed Asta's instructions. "Figured it be Soul magic but I'm fine with it." She and the others wrote their names on their respective notebooks. "What's next?"

“Your not wrong on the soul magic,” Twilight explains. “You see the spell Atsa uses binds the grimoire to your life force. If you start to die then the Grimoire will start to catch on fire. The blood attacks as a catalyst so the spell recognizes that the book is becoming a part of you. So technically it is both soul and blood magic.”

“The next step is on me,” Asta’s grimoire floated up. “This is technically a void spell. Publishing Magic: Grimoire Publishing does just as the name suggests and basically unlocks and publishes the magic of your books as Grimoires allowing you to unlock your own unique magic and spells. The books can vary in size and thickness depending on what spells you’re capable of mastering and creating. Just because you have a lot of mana doesn’t mean you’ll have a ton of spells. In the Black Clover story there was a wraith mage who had tons of power but could only use two spells. So don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Like Noel you can have power but not a lot of spells so you’ll have to get creative with your mana. That being all being said,” Asta pointed out this next part. “This spell will hurt lke a mother fucker.”

"We've all dealt with a changeling parasite that feeds on pain both mental and physical thanks to my Grandmother Instar." Chrysalis snarled. "Pain is nothing to us."

“This isn’t just a physical pain though,” Asta noted as the girls wrote their names in the notebooks. “I can’t really describe it either so you’ll just have to experience it for yourselves but you’re all strong fine-ass women whose lover is a goddess so I’ve no doubts you can handle it. Enough playing around though lets gets you girls set up with your perfect matches in terms of magic and literature,” He smiled as his grimoire floated up to him and opened. “Clench those cheeks and take a deep breath, Publishing Magic: Grimoire Publishing!” Black lightning shot from Asta’s grimoire to the notebooks and then connected with the girl who in turn cried out in agony.

The notebook transformed from a blank brown book to an elegant dark green almost black tome with a four-leaf clover with Chrsyalis’ crown in the center of the clover. It began levitating in a green glow similar to Chrsyalis’ aura as the changeling stopped screaming. “That was almost as much pain as Instar’s tortures.” She admitted panting loudly. “Now let’s see what I got.” She opened her new Grimoire and read the first page. “Gel magic huh? Considering how much of changeling biology is based around creating gels and resin it seems fitting.”

“Nice to know,” Asta said as he pulled out a small notebook and wrote down the magic type. “But most of all I bet you’re already coming up with quite a few kinky things to do with it,” He smirked as Chrissy stayed silent with her own smirk. “Moving on now, what'd you get Moondancer?”

In response, Moondancer summoned a black Katana which began to emit shadowy energy from the blade. "Dark magic." Her new Grimoire levitated up showing her four-leaf clover with her cutiemark in the center. The cover of the book was black with gold accents. "It seems my Yamato replica can finally cut dimensions with one of the spells in this book. My grandfather will be proud of this for sure!" Moondancer was grinning as she sheathed her blade.

"First time I've encountered someone with dark magic," Asta wrote down. "From what I know which mainly used to augment your body and other things like your weapons. I'm sure you'll use it in the bedroom and some other way too. Now, what about you Nota?"

A horn honked behind Asta. "Sound magic," she said through the sound that came from the same place as the horn. "This will allow me to make my shows on my own far easier. Another application is weaponized sounds. Considering that I and my sisters were at ground zero for Krakatoa when it erupted I can recreate the loudest sound ever heard as a weapon! A large part of explosions are just the blast waves which is the same thing as sound, a pressure wave through a medium, I can also make those!" Seeing the looks she was getting Sonata decided to elaborate. "If you're wondering how I can weaponize sound the spell in my Grimoire allows me to recreate any sound I have heard with perfect accuracy including how loud it is and the physical effects on the environment that it created. It's all one spell the effect just depends on the sound I recreate. Sirens have an innate sense of how sound works in the first place thanks to our song. That makes it easy for me to understand all this even with what people would call my 'airheadedness'."

"Sound magic," Asta dribbled down. "It's probably close in nature to song magic but is has a much wider spectrum of uses and isn't limited to just singing. What'd you Ay?" He turned to the goddess.

Ayumi floated her purple-covered Grimoire; the clover in the center had six leaves matching her cutiemark in the center. The book opened and she pulled out her gunblades from the pages similar to how Asta would summon his weapons. "Weapon magic." She said simply. "It's probably an expanded version of your Sword magic."

"I don't actually have or use magic in the rather since you think," Asta wrote in his book. "The swords and Grimore actually belong to Liebe while everything else in it is mine. If I were to ever actually gain magic in that way it may be problematic, though I can switch my ancient and equestrian magics on and off so Imay be able to use clover magic someday. But to even do that I Need a grimoire first and I can't publish one for myself," He chuckled slightly rubbing the back of his head.

"Well, mistress it seems I'm finally able to walk around." A dark voice said from Ayumi's Grimoire as a light flowed out of it and a pale Lavender Alicorn with a hole in the center of her chest appeared next to Ayumi. "Glad to be my own Hollow for the first time."

"As long as she doesn't have a potty mouth like another person's hollow I'm fine with her," Asta shrugs.

"Fuck you!" The hollow said with a grin on her face. "Ayumi and I swear all the time but we're keeping a lid on it in respect to family so be happy about it!"

"Twily, Asta, meet my Demon Midnight Nova," Ayumi said a smile on her face as she hugged the mare. "At first she was my Nightmare, then when I awoke Icy Hot's full power she became a hollow her personality is like a certain Espada named Nello."

"I can tell," chibi remarks from his spot in Ayumi's chest.

"As long as you keep the swearing to a minimum I could care less," Asta shook his head.

"So now that we have our grimoires is it time to go?" Moondancer asked.

"Think so," Ayumi said. "You guys ready?"

The group nodded. "You ready Asta?" Ayumi asked.

"Take care out there and try not to get on Ed's nerves too much," Asta smirked as Chino rolled his eyes. "Our contract is complete."

"See ya," Ayumi said as she and her herd stepped through the portal. "Don't forget to call!"

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